google calendar in xhtml 1.0 strict?

[starmatt]

The Situation: I'm a volunteer webmaster (with a couple others) for our new church website (www.christredeemerchurch.org). We've just gone online and worked really hard to get everything up to xhtml 1.0 strict standards, but there is one glitch.

The Problem: We have a google calendar embedded on one of the pages with the google provided code (<iframe> element) that doesn't jive with the strict standards. We really like the format of the google calendar, but at present we have that one page set to transitional rather than strict so that the site will validate. Does anyone out there have a strict solution to this problem?

The Ideas: In strict, the <object> tag was supposed to replace the <iframe>, but isn't supported in IE. I was thinking that a new approach might be in the xml link provided. There are a couple of examples out there of taking a google calendar xml link and displaying the events in a list on the website, but we've got that functionality already. Is there a way to read in the xml (or html for that matter) and produce a calendar?

The Complications: We have multiple google calendars (with multiple xml links) that we want to display so that users can choose which types of events to display. As a volunteer webmaster for a non-profit organization, we don't have a ton of time or money to spend on a solution.

With all the discussion I've found around the web on this issue, surely someone has a solution .... The closest I've found is this code from netvibes:

http://netvibes.modules.free.fr/modu...gcalendar.html

but it didn't validate (some 200+ errors) and I don't care to debug someone else's code that badly.

[nasty.web]

If you speak JS, then maybe document.write? or document.createElement ...

[starmatt]

Originally Posted by nasty.web

If you speak JS, then maybe document.write? or document.createElement ...

Thanks. I do speak JS, though not very well. I may give that a try (in a few days when I've got some time), though I've heard that there are some issues with document.write in some browsers.

Obviously, this isn't a real high priority since the current solution works. It just bugs me to have one page transitional and the rest strict.

[nasty.web]

Originally Posted by starmatt

Thanks. I do speak JS, though not very well. I may give that a try (in a few days when I've got some time), though I've heard that there are some issues with document.write in some browsers.

Obviously, this isn't a real high priority since the current solution works. It just bugs me to have one page transitional and the rest strict.

AFAIK, document.write doesn't have any issues in modern browsers (BTW: Google Analytics also uses that and I haven't heard about any problems).

[starmatt]

Originally Posted by nasty.web

AFAIK, document.write doesn't have any issues in modern browsers (BTW: Google Analytics also uses that and I haven't heard about any problems).

That's good to hear (maybe I heard wrong). Does IE6 count as a modern browser? We have a good number of hits from it.

[nasty.web]

Yes, IE6 is quite modern browser.

[john8]

I think IE6 may be the most-used web browser, IE share about 85% of browser market.

[nasty.web]

Originally Posted by john8

I think IE6 may be the most-used web browser, IE share about 85% of browser market.

Where did you get your data from?
Take a look at: http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=2

[pinkfluffybunny]

Why that cal.?

There are many many calendar scripts out there flash, java asp, php, Ajax, dotnet, Cgi, hundreds of them.

tons of free ones - http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_...words=calendar


IE supports the <object> tag, how do you think embedded mwv is put in!

I know cost matters I've done church websites - Get your money up front......lol

Actually Media Player is the most used browser - but noone counts the important stuff....lol

[MiMa]

Hi, starmatt

My Name is Michel and I come from Germany. So, don’t be confused about my English!

I have just read your article and I had visited your homepage. I am amazed about this integration of the google-calender.

How did you do this? I mean in the start page!

Can you please help me out?

I found many scripts, about how to integrate the Google xml but always just one xml file. Our Church has also many subcalenders. So how did you do this?

I hope you know what I mean!

Thanks a lot!

Greetings

Michel <><

[starmatt]

Originally Posted by MiMa

Hi, starmatt

I am amazed about this integration of the google-calender.

How did you do this? I mean in the start page!

Can you please help me out?

I found many scripts, about how to integrate the Google xml but always just one xml file. Our Church has also many subcalenders. So how did you do this?

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I'm afraid that I can't help you there. The list of upcoming events on the homepage isn't read from our google calendar. When we setup the website, we built in our own very simplistic upcoming events interface for that and only later added the google calendar.

I briefly looked into reading the google calendar in as an xml file, but ran into the same problem that you mention (only being able to read one xml file at a time). At present we update two places (on our own server & the google calendar) when we want to add events to both the calendar and the upcoming events list.

If I had time to work on it, I might try figuring out if it would be possible to make an xml file from multiple xml files (so that you could read all the google calendars into a single xml file and then link to that). But that will have to wait until I have some spare time. There are other, more pressing things that need my attention.

If you figure anything out on that front, please let me know.